Under China's one-child policy, which limited parents to one child, sex-selective abortions became widespread in the hope of securing a son -- from 1970 to 2017, this prevented 12 million girls from being born, according to a study published in May by National University of Singapore researchers.
So far none of the investigations launched by the Department of Health has led to a prosecution, according to a spokesperson who cited a lack of"sufficient evidence." She added that any complaints against Hong Kong's medical labs are handled by the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board, their statutory body.
"Both of these tests carry a small risk of miscarriage, so I wondered if I could develop a safer way to test for genetic disorders," he said. Back then, the prevalent wisdom was that the mother's and child's circulatory systems were separate. But Lo had a hunch: what if some fetal DNA made its way into the pregnant woman's blood and could be detected?
NIPT is especially popular in China, even though it can't be used for sex testing. Chinese women are choosing to have children later in life, encouraged by their increasing participation in the workforce and the partial lifting of the one-child policy, which has led many women in their late 30s and early 40s to have a second child. That increases their risk of having babies with birth defects and makes them particularly receptive to prenatal genetic testing.
nuclear-burst population.with modesty aside from religion one of the things that man existed on earth is sex libido. ask a china man.
It's either boy or abortion. Sadt